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02-16-2011, 04:40 PM | #1 |
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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/16...hips/?hpt=Sbin
Force might end up funny car King of the Hill by default.
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02-16-2011, 05:11 PM | #2 |
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Id rather see the Govt. spend tax money on racing than pizzing it away on foreign aid and illegal alliens any day.
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I have to wonder why they would spend money on sponsoring anybody. If they can afford to do that defense budget is too high.
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02-16-2011, 09:33 PM | #5 |
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Always wondered what the Pentagon's logic was for sponsoring any race car. Is it PR,troop morale,or recruiting ? Have to agree with Ed & X-Tech,gov't is damned sure expert at wasting other people's money.
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I'd rather see the money go to race teams for public relations/recruiting than to the banana republics we send billions to in foreign aid.Half of them bastards hate us anyway.
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Agree 100% on influence peddling abroad , usually comes back to bite us in the a**. Surprisingly the amounts aren't that great, they claim(FOX NEWS website) $7mil NASCAR and $5mil NHRA (Army) ,just doesn't look good when the deficit has the public's attention. If memory serves me right,their involvement started as a PR gambit at the end of VietNam era when anything military was held in low regard . I have to wonder if its a good investment when you could park a tank, a 109 and a 110 next to a card table to get "leads" as the KyARNG used to do. Seems a lot more cost effective .
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BTW having been in some "allied" countries receiving our aid , had to wonder why we supported governments so anathema to our values .
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I don't agree with pumping money into foreign countries either. That should also stop.
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